Improvement in drawer-pulls



J. E. M'ERRIMAN.

DRAWER-HILLS. N0.17-8,317. Patented June 6,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWER-PULLS.l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No..178,317,datcd June 6,1876; application filed To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, J ULIUs E. MEERIMAN, of West Meriden, in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Drawer-Pulls 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ot' referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent in- Figure l, a side view 5 Fig. 2, a longitudinal centralsection; and in Fig. 3, the blank as prepared for forming the socket.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of drawer-pullswhich consist ot' a socket in which aknob or pull is hung so that whenat rest it will hang in a vertical position, from which it is raisedwhen desired to open the drawer, and especially to the formation of thesocket to which the pull proper is attached.

In producing this part of' the pull from sheet metal,it has usually beenmade in several parts, thus complicating the manufacture and increasingthe cost.

The object of this invention is to construct the socket, with its shank,complete in a single piece of sheet metal, and in such a socket theinvention consists.

c@ is the socket proper, and b the shank. This shank is threaded toreceive a screw,

which is introduced from the inside of the drawer. The socket is formedwith a shoulder, 0, to bear against the rose on the front of the drawer,as indicated in broken lines, Fig. l. Within the socket the ball d ofthe pull e is placed and secured by a pintle, f. The socket, body, andshank are struck from a disk of sheet metal, and drawn into the shape,as seen in Fig. Z5, by suitable drawing-dies. The outer end of thesocket is then partially closed, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3,and seen in Figs. 1 and 2, a notch having been cut in one side, asindicated in broken lines, for the neck ot' the bali to drop into, asseen in Figs. l and 2. This completes the socket, and it is produced ina single piece, thereby avoiding the usual soldering or closing togetherof the various parts.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly .claiming the socket and shankof a drawerpull constructed from sheet metal, as such, I

ani aware, is not new; but

What `I do claim, and desire to secure by A drawer-pull socket,consisting ot' the ballsocket proper, body, and tubular shank, allstruck up from one and the saine piece of metal, substantially asdescribed.

- JULIUS E. MERRIMAN. Witnesses:

GEORGE W. SMITH,

FRANK S. FAY.

